Your website has to meet WCAG 2.1 AA. We tell you exactly where it doesn't.
ClinicGuard scans your practice's website every month against the accessibility standard named in the HHS Section 504 final rule, ranks what it finds by legal exposure, and sends you a report your web developer can actually act on — so your practice can prepare for Section 504 well before the deadline.
- Report emailed in about two minutes
- Built for HHS-funded health centers
- No credit card for the free scan
We didn't cite someone else's research. We scanned it ourselves.
1,028 scans of real HRSA-listed health center websites, run through the same WCAG 2.1 AA engine your report uses. Here's what that actually found.
"Low-contrast text was the single most common failure across every segment we scanned — present on up to 75% of sites, hotspot states included."
From our own scan of 1,028 scans of real HRSA-listed health center websites · September 2026
Color contrast leads every segment
The most common finding in every segment we scanned — easy to picture for a non-technical reader: text that's genuinely hard to read.
The busiest lawsuit states are no exception
Small clinics inside NY, FL and IL (all 28, re-scanned 25 September): 92.6% carry a litigation-common failure and only 7.4% are clean, in line with the national random sample.
Report in minutes
Submit a URL, get a scored PDF report with every finding, its location, and how to fix it, emailed as soon as the scan finishes.
Honest about limits
Every monitoring scan reports on all 50 WCAG 2.1 AA criteria and names the ones software cannot settle, so nobody mistakes a clean scan for full compliance.
From URL to fixed, in three steps.
No software to install, nothing to configure. You give us a domain; we give you a prioritized, plain-English list of what to fix first.
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01 · Scan
We crawl your highest-risk pages
Every month we crawl your site's highest-risk pages — appointment booking, patient portal, contact, intake forms — and run automated WCAG 2.1 AA checks on each one.
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02 · Report
You get findings, not jargon
Findings are ordered by real exposure: how severe the barrier is, how important the page is, how many elements are affected, and whether it shows up in filed complaints.
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03 · Re-verify
We check again on schedule
Monthly, weekly or daily depending on your plan. Each result lands in your dashboard, where you can download a PDF with a remediation checklist and code-level fixes for your web developer, and see how your score moved since the last scan.
Pick how deep and how often we scan.
Every plan is fully automated and runs on the same scan engine. What changes is how many pages we crawl, how often we re-scan, and what we email you when something changes. Your web developer does the fixing, using the code-level fixes in each report.
Automated Monitoring
+$79/mo each after the first
- All 50 WCAG 2.1 AA criteria reported: rule checks, keyboard and zoom tests, AI review
- Automated monthly re-scan of each website
- Up to 8 pages crawled per scan
- Month-over-month progress tracking
- Every scan dated and saved
- Self-serve dashboard with PDF download
Deep Scan + Monitoring
- All 50 WCAG 2.1 AA criteria reported: rule checks, keyboard and zoom tests, AI review
- Up to 50 pages crawled per scan
- Automated weekly re-scan of 1 website
- Email alert when a scan finds new failures
- Email confirmation when an issue is fully resolved
- Risk-ranked findings with code-level fixes
Automated Fix Kit
12 months, no subscription
- All 50 WCAG 2.1 AA criteria reported: rule checks, keyboard and zoom tests, AI review
- Automated daily re-scan of 1 website
- Up to 50 pages crawled per scan
- Code-level fix for every finding
- Email confirmation the day an issue is fully resolved
- Email alert when a scan finds new failures
Network Retainer
For hospital networks, billed annually
- All 50 WCAG 2.1 AA criteria reported: rule checks, keyboard and zoom tests, AI review
- Automated monthly monitoring for up to 10 websites
- Up to 25 pages crawled per site
- Unified executive dashboard with CSV export
- Automated monthly summary email across all sites
- Email alerts when a site gets new failures
Agency Partner License
For digital marketing agencies building healthcare websites. Run up to 20 audits a month for your clients and receive PDF reports branded with your own name, colour and logo. Partner audits run the rule checks (axe-core); the three-layer scan is part of the monitoring plans. You confirm you are authorized to scan each client site.
Every scan is dated and saved, so you have a record of your progress. ClinicGuard is not a law firm and does not provide legal advice, and a report is not a determination of legal compliance.
A lighter first step than the free scan
Get the Section 504 readiness checklist first.
Compliance dates, who's covered, and a practical section-by-section review guide — delivered instantly as a PDF, email only, no URL required.
Get your free scan
We run the same audit we sell, on your homepage plus your four highest-risk pages, and email you the report. It takes about two minutes to run, and the report reaches your inbox as soon as it finishes.
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Not ready to hand over your URL yet? Get the free readiness checklist instead.
What automated testing can and cannot do
We would rather tell you this up front than have you discover it later. Rule checks, which is what most accessibility scanners run, reach only part of WCAG: on the clinic websites we measured, 12 to 15 of the 50 success criteria. ClinicGuard's monitoring plans go further. Every scan reports on all 50 criteria in three layers: rule checks; browser tests that use your pages with the keyboard, on a narrow phone screen, at 200% zoom and with forms submitted empty (nothing is ever sent); and AI review of judgement calls, such as whether alt text describes its image. On the clinic websites we tested, 45 to 50 of the 50 criteria got a result: a pass, a failure, not applicable, or the exact element flagged for your developer to check. Anything software could not test is listed as not tested. The free scan runs the rule checks only.
Software still cannot confirm everything, such as whether captions are accurate or whether a blind patient can complete a booking from start to finish.
A report with no failures is not a determination of legal compliance, and any vendor who tells you otherwise — particularly anyone selling a one-line "accessibility overlay" script — is selling you a false sense of security. Overlays have themselves been named in accessibility lawsuits. We find the defects that are there; certifying their absence takes manual testing with real assistive technology, which ClinicGuard does not do. Every plan is fully automated, so if you need that level of assurance, pair our monitoring with a manual audit from an accessibility specialist.
Before you ask, we'll answer.
Does this apply to us if we are a small private practice?
If you receive HHS federal financial assistance — which includes billing Medicare or Medicaid — then yes, with a compliance date of May 2028 if you have fewer than 15 employees. Separately, ADA Title III exposure applies to places of public accommodation regardless of federal funding.
We just had our site redesigned. Are we fine?
Usually not. Accessibility is rarely part of a standard web design brief, and most agency-built healthcare sites we scan fail on image alt text, form labels, and colour contrast. The free scan will tell you in two minutes rather than leaving you to guess.
Can't we just install an accessibility widget?
Overlay widgets do not fix the underlying markup, and companies that use them have still been sued (UsableNet counted over 20% of digital accessibility lawsuits in mid-2024 against companies using widgets). Real conformance means fixing the code. More on why, here.
Who does the actual fixing?
Your existing web developer, working from our remediation document, which includes the specific selector and the specific fix for each finding. ClinicGuard does not edit your site: every plan is automated. The next scan confirms each fix, and on the Deep Scan and Fix Kit plans we email you when it does.
Do you need access to our systems?
No. We test your public website exactly as a patient's browser would see it. No credentials, no plugins, no code installed on your site, and we don't request or store patient data.
Find out what a patient already knows about your site.
Free scan, no signup, no credit card. Five pages, one report, findings you can act on today.